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[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Is this some kind of moe anthroprism?

[–] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Yay! But wait, what?

[–] 01011@monero.town 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

We're about 5 years away from the Vatican releasing shotacon.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 90 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

The Catholic Church has a new mascot.

It's a small child.

[–] darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml 28 points 9 hours ago

"How do we distract from all the child molestation?"

"Loli mascot?"

"Genius, go out and buy a 3d printer so I can get my hands on her ASAP!"

[–] M137@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And you know there will be a ton of rule34 made.... There's just pedos everywhere...

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Oh my god yeah.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 25 points 18 hours ago
[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 26 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Looks kinda like that Chickpea comic.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 32 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

it looks like if raincoats were hijabs...

Who are they trying to appeal to with this, are they launching a vatican sponsored cocomelon clone?

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

They shouldve just asked permission to use Alexander Anderson. My favorite fictional Catholic.

[–] VerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.ca 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Designed by tokidoki 😑 what even is this timeline.

[–] ammonium@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

August 6th 1945: a small forgotten shrine in Hiroshima gets obliterated by the nuclear blast of Little Boy. This was one of the seven shrines holding the fabrics of spacetime together. Slowly spacetime starts to unravel, in the beginning nothing seems unusual but slowly the timeline becomes more and more unlikely. Can our hero stop the unraveling in time?

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The dog shit on their boots is a nice touch.

[–] cranakis@reddthat.com 1 points 9 hours ago

I just had a realization based on your comment; Their boots are dirty because they are walking through a world of shit. That is a core tenant of Christianity. They get to cop out on trying to make anything better by just saying "oh well, the world is shitty, get believers to make god daddy happy and then die." That lines up with Trump's thematic message of America being some over run, crime infested wasteland. It is the hook by which Trump catches the Christians.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Maybe they are trying to expaind theor Japanese market

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 49 points 22 hours ago (9 children)
[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

OFC, I KNEW IT

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Already trained image LORAs https://civitai.com/models/899944/luce-vatican-mascot

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mother fuckers

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Haha, need to log in for nsfw..

[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I can't be sure this was the primary use-case that the AI inventors envisioned, but it's hard to argue that it's not successful at this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 23 points 20 hours ago

yeah thats gonna clean up their image

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 79 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Numbers are down, release the waifu! Common business strategy with ancient roots.

Samsung Sam corporate comic

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 18 hours ago

I'd say the mascot is clearly a child, but the Catholic Church...

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 42 points 1 day ago

Something something "the power of god and anime on my side"

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

"Luz" is an incredibly common name in Spanish speaking countries. It means light. "Luce" means light in Italian, but seems to be less common as a name. Lucifer means "Light-bringer", and the myth of the light-bringer is much, much older than Christianity.

Old religions thought things in the sky were gods. Venus orbits closer to the sun than the Earth, which means light reflecting from it is extremely bright, but that light is only visible near sunrise and sunset. During the rest of the day the brightness of the sun overwhelms the reflected light from Venus, and during the rest of the night it's not visible because it's near the sun, so it's behind the earth. So, old religions talked about the brightest "god" in the sky, who disappeared when it got too bright or too dark. That led to the myth of the god who tried to be the brightest light and was cast down. That, of course, led to Satan, A.K.A. Lucifer.

I guess the Catholic church was giving its followers too much credit in their understanding of words.

[–] portuga@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Satan == Lucifer is wrong though. Those were two concepts that got conflated together, much beyond their original meaning

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 1 day ago (15 children)

Yes; "Luce" is Italian for "Light' and "Lucifer" is Latin for "light bearer". They are cognates.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 30 points 22 hours ago

So whoever carries that anime figure is literally Luciferian.

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[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

If there is an internet rule for every character there is a religion swapped version of that character, I'd like to see Pagan/Wicca versions of them like they have moved out of the bible belt (especially Texas) and into a mostly blue state where they can preserve their freedom of religion from certain religious nutjobs.

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[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Really surprising it isn't a teenage boy.

[–] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 day ago

Luce will also represent the Holy See at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan.

I love this sentence so much.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

Finally the Catholics have discovered religion!

[–] loopy@lemm.ee 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the onion-ness we all deserve

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